Taylor Swift
My IP is 127.0.0.1
Is that a toxic one?
Arguably the most toxic!
Fuck off with that shit ::1 is where its’s at!
Scientology. They don’t want to be seen as such, but that is because they are toxic!
And Mormons
Hazbin Hotel. I don’t think it is a good show. The fandom is made up of terminally online deviants. The hate train is a bit too much though. Just block the sub, filter a few words in Mastodon or whatever, and move on.
The fact that many noobs and trolls single out the show for being nothing about swearing constantly. While ignoring the real and actually important flaws like the pacing, the unresolved storylines, and especially the questionable motives for its lead is why I side with Blue sky on why Hazbin is so unwarrantably bashed.
And I don’t even like the show one bit either.
I like Hazbin better than Helluva Boss. The vocal performances are fine, but I dunno why they have Vaggie singing soprano when her character’s voice has an alto timbre. They’re either forcing her to sing above her range, or act lower than it. On either count, while technically talented, it’s incongruent and disorienting.
Helluva Boss is all toilet humor and loud screaming. It occasionally has enough of a serious storyline to give unpleasant emotional whiplash that thinks it’s a punchline.
Basically every religion.
Formula One Motorsports. Most new fans (people who started liking the series after Netflix’s Drive to Survive) hate the old fans. Everyone hates what the governing body is doing with the new cars this year. There is too much battery control. The races seem fake. Tracks are being dropped and everyone has an opinion. Road courses vs purpose built tracks. It is just a big ball of drama any way you want to consume it. I often say F1 is a soap opera where races get in the way.
As an F1 fan since 2021 who did NOT get into it through Drive to Survive, this seems accurate.
Kpop idols like BTS or Black Pink, League of Legends
The English football team. Especially when they start talking about how “it’s coming home.”
I don’t know, maybe My Little Pony? Are Bronies still a thing?
Maybe I’m falling into an unfamiliarity trap, but I never really understood why My Little Pony was seen as worthy of such adulation.
I watched a lot of them with my kids. As far as kids shows go, there are definitely worse ones out there, but I went in knowing that bronies exist, and expected to find some deeper artistic value, but no, it’s just a kids show about magic pony friends.
Same here. My kids were super into it and I had the theme song seared into my brain, but I guess I didn’t pay enough attention to get the nuance that people seem to enjoy.
Back when it got momentum, I was one of the idiots who got sucked into it because of “lol, let’s hate watch it” and actually enjoyed it up to a point (S5, I think? First season after Twilight became princess). Season openings and finales were usually the best episodes, taking the cast out of slice of life situations and dropping them into dangerous adventures.
I wrote some fanfiction that never saw the light of day - thankfully for me and anyone who would end up reading it
It was a pretty good children’s tv show aimed at young girls.
Some terminally online dudes, probably due to the over-the-top girlie nature of the show, start to watch it so they can make fun of it. Then some of the terminally online dudes realize that it is halfway decent - but more importantly, realize they can get a funnier reaction by trolling the haters with the show’s strong points. This attracts more dudes who arent necessarily trolls, so much as they have a deeply seated need to be contrarian - the fact that this show was very clearly not made for them drives them to want to watch it, and they find community with the other pathologically contrarian online dudes who also watch it for the same reason.
Hence, there are two parallel fandom/hatedoms. The primary - little girls and terminally online dudes hating on a tv show made for little girls. And then the bronies and brony-haters. The existance of brony-haters being completely unsurprising because that was the point of watching the show in the first place - after all, there are other tv shows. There are better tv shows. And there is always the option to simply watch a tv show you like and then not make fanfic art about it and not bring it up in conversation in your college dorm room. The underlying motivation of the brony was never to simply enjoy watching a tv show, but to watch a tv show that other people didn’t want them to enjoy, and therefore to piss people off by enjoying it. And so the existance of the brony haters isnt so much a bug of the brony community, nor a feature, but the whole point.
Maybe Twilight. I used to be part of the hatedom. I read the books and fanatically nitpicked at them
Homestuck
The Last Of Us. They’re the same people, though. Those who love part 1, and mouth-frothingly hate part 2.
League of Legends, Star Wars. If we travel some years back in time, World of Warcraft, though it has been dying down thanks to a steady decline of players
The Amazing Digital Circus. At least the fan base is toxic enough that multiple YouTubers felt compelled to make hour long videos about it.
The Breaking Bad universe. There’s a lot of shitty dudes who idolize Walter White, and then there’s the Better Call Saul shit posting that seems largely nonsensical and mostly harmless
